Battery connection



BATTERY CONNECTION Filed August 26, 1924 Patented Jan. 4, 1927.

UNITED STATES. PATENT; OFFICE.

ALBERT W. WEIMEB AND JACOB SMITH, 'OF GENESEO, ILLINOIS; SAID WEIMEN AS- SIGNOR TO WALTERYPARSON, OF'GENESEO, ILLINOIS.

BATTERY CONNECTION.

Application filed August'2 6, 1924. Serial No; 734,263. 1'

This invention relates to storage battery connections and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object or, the invention is to provide simple and'eflicient means for connecting.

cable terminals with a storage battery or other electrical device in which the cable is subjected to the deteriorating action of acids or other chemicals.

The invention consists primarily in an improved terminal whichis .of such character as to prevent any deteriorating action taking place. I

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of the battery connection with parts thereof shown in section and cut on the line 1-1 of Figure'2.

Figure 2 is a tgp plan view of the battery connection.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional View thereof cut on the line 33 of Figure 2.

As illustrated'in the accompanying drawing the battery is indicated at 1 and the said battery is provided with a usual post 2 having at its upper end a' threaded. stud 3. The connection proper comprises a head 4 having a threaded socket 5 \adapted to receive the stud 3. The head 4 is provided atone side With a neck portion 6 having at its outer end a sleeve 7. The bore 8 through the sleeve 7 is provided with angularly disposed end portions and an opening 9 asses through the top side of the sleeve and 8 in the sleeve.

The battery connection also includes a cable section 10 covered by asheathing 11 and one end portion of the cable section and the sheathing is inserted in the bore 8 of the .'sleeve and an extremity of the cable-extends into the angularly disposed end portion of the said bore and the strands of wire of the cable are in direct contact with the surfaces of the bore. A sealing agent12 such as any suitable grease or the like is poured into the sleeve through the opening 9 and completely surrounds the sheathing 11 at a point hecommunicates at its inner end with the bore tween the ends of the sleeve. Such a seal ing agent may also be poured into-the angularly disposd outer end portion of the bore 8 whereby the end of the cable 10 is sealed within the sleeve. A plate 13 is connected with the outer end-of the cable 10 and is provided with a slot 14 which'receives The reason 0t the. structure hereinbet'ore proper contact. The parts may be made of lead and thus are of such character as to be unall'ected by contact with the electrolyte of the battery.

Having thus we'claim is I A battery connection comprising a head having a socket and a sleeve, saidsleeve being offset from the head, the median longitudinal dimension of the'sleeve being perdescribed the invention, .what

pendicularly disposed to the axis of the socket of the head, said sleeve being pros portion and to extend upwardly therefrom, the juncture of the bores being larger. in diaineter than the remaining portions of the bores, the first bore being; larger in diameter than the second bore,- said sleeve provided with an opening leading upwardly from the juncture of the bores through the top of the sleeve. y In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

- ALBERT WJ'WEIMERL JACOB SMITH. 

